@SiHancox It may effect all devices but they won’t fix it for the mini or the aries. I don’t know how else to tell you that the mini or the aries won’t get anymore updates beyond 6.1.1 I personally find it greatly disappointing for those of us who have these models and can not afford to move up at this time.

The reason I’ve questioned your comment regarding firmware 6.1.1 being the “last” update, and that assumes it comes out of beta, is that Xuanqian again said the Mini would be supported for 5 years following its discontinued date.

Imho, Aries mini is the best choice (i.e. „most bang for the buck“) compared to any other streaming bridge / dac combo on the market. At present I own two minis and would hate to miss them in the future. I understand that the mini was discontinued only for economical reasons. I therefore do declare that I am happily prepared to pay at least 50% more than for the mini I, if Auralic would ever decide to launch a mini II.
Sincerely
Komadori

Saying that, I’d be content at the moment in just knowing what’s happing with Aries Mini firmware, which appears “stuck” at 5.8.

I (and I would consider many others) would obviously love to get any further functionality improvements that an update potentially brings, but would happily settle in just being able to access BBC High Res Streams through LDS, without having to exit and default to using AirPlay.

So, @Xuanqian, could you please enlighten us on what’s happening with regards to any forthcoming Mini firmware upgrades (eg. when will current beta turn in to final release and will it have the bbc stream fix), thank you.

The current firmware page hasn’t yet been updated. Aries and Aries Mini are both still listed at 6.1.1.

You can wait for someone to confirm that the Aries Mini has updated or simply enable beta firmware and see what happens. It will update fairly quickly once the beta is enabled. Reverting to release firmware is easy; I did it once in 2017 at Auralic’s request in order to test something. The beta firmware has never caused problems.

Sorry, I assumed incorrectly because you said your Aries was now on 6.2.1 that it was in fact a G1/G2 due to what’s currently listed on the firmware page.

I’ll try your suggestion and enable beta on my Mini tomorrow and see what happens through the day now the lower level devices are being moved up to 6.2.1

My initial reluctance was largely due to being relatively new to Auralic gear and therefore having no prior experience with regards to beta stability, plus just added a new router and everything is streaming very nicely, would hate to mess that up without good reason.

I’ve just enable “beta” under “My Account” after seeing that 6.2.1 was in fact available for the Mini as well, will leave things alone so it can do it’s stuff.

@Xuanqian mentioned if all goes well 6.2.1 will probably turn into final release in a few weeks, was wondering what happens to the copy on the device, does that remain beta or will it automatically change over to “final” as well, or do you have to op-out again before that happens.

Anyhow, a lot happier doing the beta switch now that 6.2.1 is close to final.